The new year has brought lots of change here at CognisantMD. The business is growing rapidly, with more and more clinics relying on our technology to do everything from checking in at a kiosk to sending patients appointment reminders and…
Ottawa, Ontario, September 11, 2017 – Joule, the Canadian Medical Association’s (CMA) newest company, is partnering with CognisantMD to bring the Ocean Platform for patient engagement and eReferrals to Canadian physicians. Ocean is a secure, cloud-based platform that connects patients,…
Virtually everyone knows someone with a story of a faxed referral being lost, a specialist appointment being missed because they weren’t contacted, or someone who’s been left in the dark while waiting far too long for a healthcare referral. We’ve…
With our weekly software updates, there are always new features being added to Ocean. This can make it hard to keep up with the latest and greatest. This month, we clear up a few questions about the different ways you…
We answer hundreds of support questions each month from Ocean users about everything from creating forms to choosing a tablet. We chose a few recent customer questions that we think may be helpful to other users. Have a question you…
For the past few months, we’ve kept some very exciting news under wraps. Today, we are thrilled to announce that the Ocean eReferral Platform has been chosen as the technology behind an innovative project that will bring eReferrals to the Waterloo-Wellington region and…
We answer hundreds of support questions each month from Ocean users about everything from creating forms to choosing a tablet. We chose a few recent customer questions that we think may be helpful to other users. Have a question you…
It’s hard to believe that summer vacation is almost over. As your practice starts to ramp up with back-to-school visits, we thought it might be a good time to highlight the wide range of adolescent-focused tools available in Ocean. Caring…
With Ocean, you can now send secure messages to your patients, add attachments, track when a patient has read your message, and allow them to respond – all without risking the safety and privacy of PHI. If you are an Ocean user,…
We are so thrilled to welcome the newest member of the Ocean team, Dr. Heather Thomson. As the Director of Customer Success here at CognisantMD, Heather has jumped in and is already developing and sharing best practices with our community of…
Dr. Adam Stewart is a family physician with a passion for developing and implementing tools to improve EMR use. Over the past few months, he has worked closely with our team here at CognisantMD to develop an algorithm on the Ocean Platform to aid…
Notes This article is no longer being updated. For up to date tablet recommendations please refer to the article “What tablet should I buy? on our support site. This article was last updated in November 2017 to include a tablet…
Are you using NutriSTEP screens on Ocean to integrate nutritional screen data into your young patients’ charts? It’s been a popular addition to the Ocean forms library and it helps streamline the process of child nutrition screening, particular if there’s…
Refugees can complete a full patient history and PHQ-9 mental health screening in Arabic or Armenian, with responses automatically translated to English Toronto, ON – March 9, 2016 – With over 25,000 Syrian refugees recently arrived in Canada, a significant…
Do you know this man? More importantly, did you know that he might be able to view and even sell your patient’s health data? He works as a system administrator in your new cloud-based health IT solution. The database is…
Are you a clinician using Ocean with your patients? Would you like to share your thoughts on the effectiveness of tablet-based patient self-interviewing? We are pleased to invite Ocean users to participate in an independent research study conducted by Sunnybrook Family Medicine Residents….
Ontario’s First EMR-Integrated Patient eReferral Solution, Ocean by CognisantMD Launches at Cambridge Memorial Hospital eReferrals help improve patient access to diagnostic imaging in Waterloo region, replacing outdated faxes, saving time and improving communication between family physicians and specialists Cambridge, ON and…
New Partnership Puts Evidence-Based Tools in the Hands of Primary Care Providers and their Patients The Centre for Effective Practice and CognisantMD join forces to deliver EMR-integrated patient-facing forms at the point of care Toronto, ON – November 12, 2015…
CognisantMD Launches Open API for EMR Vendors to Integrate with the Ocean Platform, Seeks International Distribution Partners EMR vendors can now easily add support for secure waiting room tablets including hundreds of clinically-validated forms and patient surveys from the Ocean Library September…
Do you like to stay on top of the changes we’re making to the Ocean Platform and Tablets? Do you love new features? If you’re an Ocean customer, you probably noticed that we are constantly updating our products with new…
Very few people realize that the genesis of the Ocean Platform was actually a series of tools that our co-founder, Dr. Doug Kavanagh built when he was in medical school, to help clinicians save time and still provide excellent patient care….
Online Patient Self-Service Connects People to their Health Record Patients can now complete secure forms for new patient intake, prescription renewals, appointment requests and more from a clinician’s website Monday, June 1, 2015 – Toronto, ON – Today at the 2015…
If you’ve ever wondered about how much your team is using your tablets, you’ll want to check out the new Ocean usage report. You can have it sent nightly and/or weekly, and it will tell you how many patients have…
Mobile Tablets in Waiting Rooms and Exam Rooms Transform Patient – Physician Communication October 1, 2014, Toronto, ON – CognisantMD™, a Toronto-based health informatics software company, today announced a major milestone as they surpassed 100,000 patient record updates on the Ocean…
Opioid Management Toolkit includes patient questionnaires, calculators, and contracts to help physicians assess, track and monitor opioid use July 30, 2014 – Toronto, ON – Opioid addiction in Canada has grown starkly over the past two decades, becoming a widespread…
How do you keep tablets safe? How often are they stolen? How do you keep them clean and sanitized? Of all the questions we get asked, the one that comes up again and again is, how can you keep a…
